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Show Woodworth/20 you said that if I stopped crying, I could go up to your tree house with you.. Yj3U__climbed ahead of me, showing me where to put my feet and hands. I had never climbed that high before, but I didn'_t. want you to stop. You would say, "Put your hand here," and pat a branch, or, "Put your foot here," and step on the branch, and I .just did exactly what you did., Then you climbed up higher, and went up onto the platform of the tree house, and I couldn't see you any more. It looked like a long way down, and I thought that I was going to get dizzy and let go and fall in to the pond. I couldn't remember where you put your hands, and all the branches looked too high for me without you showing me how to reach them. I__called, "Jake? Jake?" and you peeked your head over the floor of the tree house, and I said that I couldn't get up there. You put your_hand_..oyer, and told me to grab you, and you would pull me up. But I was too scared, and didn't dare let go of the branch. I thought you would call me a sissy, but you came back down to where .I__was, and showed me again where to put my hands and feet, climbing right next to me. But my arms felt weak, and some of the branches were too high. When you said that I wasn't big enough to climb up_..to the tree house yet, I thought that you were just using it as an excuse. "I am, too," I said. But then you said that if I waited until I was a little taller, you would let me climb up any time that I wanted to, and even play with you up there. I .didjrL'J_know_what you did up there. But I didn't like you going any place without mey. So I said I'd go down. It took longer to get down, even, than it took_ to...get _up. You climbed right under me, and jput my feet on the branches because I was so scared, and couldn't see what I was doing. When |